Category: Legal

Connect the Dots

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court in Sackett v EPA issued a major ruling cutting back on the authority of the EPA and by extension all federal executive branch agencies such as the ATF to enact laws via regulations. The Sackett opinion contains powerful language that can likely be used against the ATF in various contexts including in the ongoing legal fights over the bump stock ban and the pistol brace rules. Mark Smith breaks it down. [Watch]

If you think about it, this is also a powerful argument against the phony “single issue” deflection.

It’s all related. That’s because it’s not about guns, it’s about freedom.

[Via Jess]

A Law Unto Themselves

Giffords Courage to Fight Gun Violence and March for Our Lives, gun control groups headed by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, respectively, are canvassing campuses to convince law students to sign a pledge they won’t represent the firearm industry or firearm owners when it comes to protecting and preserving Second Amendment rights. [More]

So much for oaths of admission requiring support for the Constitution and then turning around and declaring violations of a keystone of the Bill of Rights must be ignored.

You’d think that “engag[ing] in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice” would result in not being admitted to/being booted from the bar.

In any case, they’ll probably all be busy suing Christian bakers for refusing to provide services to people they don’t agree with.

Gun prohibitionists are traitors.

Where Every Day is Opposite Day

Pistol braces are popular accessories intended to increase the accuracy and stability of AR-15-style pistols. [More]

Just to be clear, the “commonsense gun safety law” prohibitionists, the violence monopoly beneficiaries, and their enforcers are all trying to gaslight voters into believing it’s in the public interest for firearms to be more inaccurate and unstable.

That’s Orwellian, fanatical, and insane, in other words, SOP for Bloomberg’s The Trace. The only people who would support such absurd, destructive diktats are stupid, evil, or both.

Mock Up

And from Gun Owners of America, via email alert:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 23, 2023

Washington, D.C. — Gun Owners of America (GOA) issued the following statements after the 5th Circuit Court partially enjoined the Biden Pistol Brace Ban this morning. GOA and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) had filed an amicus brief in Mock v. Garland, as well as filed their own challenge to the rule in conjunction with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a different federal court.

“This is an encouraging step from the Fifth Circuit, and we hope that the judge in our own case will see this ruling and in turn grant a more robust injunction to relief the millions of Americans nationwide who may soon be in legal jeopardy,” said Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior VP. “This is just the latest attempt by the Biden Administration to weaponize federal agencies against the American people, and we will continue to stand in the way in defense of our rights.”

“This injunction is welcome news, but due to it’s limited nature, we still need Congress to act before the June 1st deadline,” said Aidan Johnsotn, GOA’s Director of Federal Affairs. “189 Representatives and 47 Senators have already signed on, and we urge the Speaker to put this on the floor for a vote and force Democrats in both chambers to vote on whether to make their constituents felons overnight.”

GOA spokesmen are available for interviews. Gun Owners of America is a nonprofit grassroots lobbying organization dedicated to protecting the right to keep and bear arms without compromise. GOA represents over two million members and activists. For more information, visit GOA’s Press Center.

-GOA-

Even When He Loses He Wins

Columbus Files Yet Another Lawsuit Seeking to Infringe Gun Rights [More]

It’s not Zach Klein’s money being squandered and it gets his name in the papers. When you think about it, that’s a special kind of contemptible. And anyone stupid or biased enough to vote for him in the first place won’t let a little thing like repeated losses keep them from pushing a proven apparatchik for higher office.

Even if he is that most loathsome of creatures along the lines of Bill Kristol, Joe Scarborough, and Joe Walsh:

A Viahycon turned Democrat.

Not Now

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request to block state and local laws barring the sale of assault-style weapons in Illinois while a group of challenges to those laws continues in the lower courts. There were no dissents publicly recorded from the unsigned order, nor did the justices provide any explanation for their decision. [More]

I’m going to resist reading more into this for now.

[Via Jess]

Going with What Works

Maryland governor signs gun-control bills tightening requirements, NRA sues [More]

The bastards have virtually unlimited tax plunder to test defiant weasel-wording against Bruen diktats for as long as it takes.

[Via Jess]

Related UPDATE

NRA gets the major media attention, but they’re not the only group taking action:

SAF SUES MARYLAND OVER RESTRICTIVE NEW CARRY LAW

I’ll do another update today if GOA gets involved.

FPC Legal Alert

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against numerous parts of New Jersey’s Bruen response bill. Read the 235-page opinion in our lawsuit… [More]

I’ll have to get to it later. If you’ve got time to read it today, feel free to give the Cliff’s Notes version in comments.

At This Point, They’re Just F***ing With Us

Illegal immigrants get court dates scheduled for years in the future, allowed to stay in US in the meantime – Many migrants don’t have to appear in court for up to five years [More]

Give it another year and the wait time will double. Not that people whose first act in this country was to break its laws plan on showing up.

The politicians, officials, business interests, and string-pullers behind this state of affairs seem pretty unconcerned about personal repercussions, don’t they?

So do our “gun rights leaders”…

A Last Ditch Attempt

The grabbers fight like cowardly children, which I suppose is a good thing.

Oh, It’s the Safety Dance

In particular, the court explained, “the text of the Second Amendment is limited to only certain arms, and history and tradition demonstrate that particularly ‘dangerous’ weapons are unprotected.” Id. at 18. “Because assault weapons are particularly dangerous weapons and high-capacity magazines are particularly dangerous weapon accessories, their regulation accords with history and tradition.” [More]

So it was the Founders’ contention that only “safe” arms were “necessary to the security of a free State”?

[Via Jess]

The Second Amendment is Not a Sporting Arms Popularity Contest

CALIFORNIA CAUGHT! 700,000 Machine Guns Claim Exposed in Duncan v. Bonta Case… [Watch]

Sorry, Mr. Smith, what you, and evidently every prominent voice on “our side” continually miss is that if “in common use at the time” does not cover what is in common use by the infantry, then the Second Amendment is meaningless and all future technological developments will be denied to We the People under the false doctrine of it being “dangerous and unusual.”

And yes, machineguns ARE supposed to be protected, and the tax is a fraudulent infringement imposed by usurping rights swindlers.

It’s “every terrible implement of the soldier.”

I’m probably going to have to write (another) article to elaborate.

Smoke and Mirrors

” I know, and I think many of the people on your panel know, that prosecutors do not have evidence in hand linking the effort of Enrique Tarrio, Stewart Rhodes, and other lieutenants of theirs, to Donald Trump. They do not have the smoking-gun evidence that shows that Donald Trump was directing an effort to violently overthrow the government. ” [More]

Considering the charges and the punishment, it doesn’t even look like they “have the smoking-gun evidence that shows that[Stewart Rhodes] was directing an effort to violently overthrow the government.”

[Via bondmen]

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